Apartment 3E at 142 West 109th St. is like the opposite of haunted: Barack Obama lived here in 1981. Now it's on the market, and you can rent it for $1,900 a month. Let's take a look.

The ad for the pre-war Upper West Side apartment boasts "beautiful hardwood floors," "high ceilings," "large closets" and "OBAMA SLEPT HERE AND YOU CAN TOO." The New York Timessays Obama lived here with a roommate in 1981 during his Junior year at Columbia. But what will you get for your $1,900, besides the exciting possibility that some of Obama's dandruff is still floating around in the living room?

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Here is the small but functional kitchen where Barack Obama prepared his traditional Kenyan meals.

Here is the hallway Barack Obama used to pace while chain-smoking cigarettes. A built-in bookshelf may or may not contain Obama's old copy of Das Kapital, heavily underlined.

The living room. A perfect space for palling around with… friends. (Dogs not included.)

This extremely skinny door was either custom-made for our slender President, or it is maybe a devious new tool in Michelle Obama's anti-obesity campaign.

Here is the front of the building. All in all, not a bad deal. (But "Upper West Side?" Really more of a Morningside Heights address. Realtors!)